Professional Competition 8

1. KOSMOGONIA 15:33 2025
   

   Directed:	Karolina Chabier
   Screenplay:	Karolina Chabier
   Production:	Marc Faye

   
   

   In an infinite night, the Great One, a buffalo goddess, meets the Little One, a goat goddess. A friendship is born and with it a new world: the stars, the sun, the earth and living beings. Animals emerge from the waters, grow, and a lush forest flourishes. As the world evolves, the two goddesses are overwhelmed by their power of creation.

2. The Legend of the Stone of the Weeping Indian / A Lenda da Pedra do Índio Chorão 13:40 Brazil 2025
   

   Directed:	Fábio Fernando de Azevedo Pereira
   Screenplay:	Fábio Fernando de Azevedo Pereira
   Production:	Fábio Fernando de Azevedo Pereira
   Dialogue Language:	Portuguese

   
   

   Narrated by Quetzalcóatl (Renata Egger), the film tells the story of two Tupinambá Indigenous people who lived in the Serra do Mar mountain range since pre-Columbian times. One of them, Abaetê, manages to save the village from a genocide that was about to be carried out by the native leader.

3. Nebulosa Mina 07:59 2026
   

   Directed:	Roachman93
   Dialogue Language:	Portuguese

   
   

   After capturing the space pyromaniac Atomic Roach, the Star Patrol officer Nebulosa Mina continues her journey to the prison planet Lovaria Prime to complete her mission. However, before reaching her destination, her ship is intercepted by a massive fleet led by King, the feared crime lord of Turtle Planet.

4. GOD IS REAL / БОГ ЕСТЬ 09:06 Russian Federation 2026
   

   Directed:	Andrei Slobodzian
   Production:	Andrei Slobodzian
   Dialogue Language:	Russian

   
   

   A true story from the USSR about a old lady, God and a construction pit

5. Cephalopods / Cefalópodes 15:00 2026
   

   Directed:

   Vic Casé

   
   

   Duda is just beginning her career as a drag queen in a vast metropolis in a distant future. She lives a romance with Teo, a confident painter born in one of Saturn’s moons. Amid conversations and passionate kisses, we witness the portrait of an intimacy being built on affection and tenderness just to crumble down in absences and misconnections. Dissolved by the end of their relationship, Duda seeks comfort in her best friend Lana, who helps her overcome the breakup and cherish all the love and affection she has found along the way.

6. COWMAN 07:02 Canada 2025
   

   Directed:	Jiwoo Kim
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   On a quiet farm, a farmer and his beloved cow encounter an alien abduction that sparks a series of strange transformations, blurring the line between the absurd and the unknown.

7. Carla and her legs / Carla und ihre Beine 14:11 Germany 2026
   

   Directed:	Christoph Büttner
   Screenplay:	Christoph Büttner
   Production:	Christoph Büttner
   Dialogue Language:	German

   
   

   Carla has had enough. No one is interested in her talent as an acrobat. All they care about is that she has no legs. Instead of getting her own act in a variety show, she’s only offered a temporary job backstage. Then, in a moment of desperation, the show’s director pressures Carla to perform. Is this really the big moment she’s been longing for? Age Rating: 10+

8. KAUKOKAIPUU 08:55 2026
   

   Directed:	Valentina Lo Duca
   Screenplay:	Valentina Lo Duca
   Production:	Valentina Lo Duca
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   Inspired by the Finnish word “kaukokaipuu,” the film explores the nostalgia of the unlived — a longing for an elsewhere where past and possibility intertwine. Through an intimate and sensory journey, fragmented selves encounter one another in a space where absence, memory, and what never happened coexist.

9. Not for me 09:45 Algeria 2026
   

   Directed:

   soufiane benyoucef

   
   

   In an abandoned house, an old man struggles with a mouse that damages his furniture. He tries to get rid of it by any means necessary, only to discover in the end that the mouse is the only thing left of his past.

10. The Perfect Plate 05:15 2024
    

    Directed:	Ayesha Latif
    Screenplay:	Ayesha Latif
    Production:	Department of Multimedia Arts National College of Arts, Lahore
    Dialogue Language:	Urdu